Hello!

I have to install a central Firewall/VPN/Internet-GW for a company of more than 4000 workers with more that 5 locations.

I tought about an Astaro but the price is much to high than what i would like to pay for a linux appliance delivering me not more than a linux system with an older kernel and a web interface with sucks if you know ip, iptables and tc.

Can anybody give me any experiance on a soulution like astaro applicane and/or has something like this working ?

Tech. Infos:

Needs to support ...

- more than 100 VPNs
- advanced routing
- tc
- and whatever i am not thinking about today

The different locations are connected via gigabit lwl and the max i-net connection is actually 40mbit/s.

I am administrating three systems with SLES9-11 doing this at the moment, so knowledge would not be the problem.

What should i be thinking about ?
What would be your sollution for this ?

Excellent would be a cluster, as this system would get more and more important.

Thanks for every link and post.